Book says Bush just using Christians
‘Tempting Faith’ author David Kuo worked for Bush from 2001 to 2003
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Oct. 12: Our fifth story on the Countdown: part two of our look inside David’s Kuo's new book, "Tempting Faith," which was written from his earlier vantage point as the number two man in Bush's Office Of Faith-Based Initiatives.
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Oct. 12: How will the devastating accusations in David Kuo’s "Tempting Faith" affect the GOP in the midterms? "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann asks Newsweek’s Howard Fineman.
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• Analysis
Oct. 12: Rev. Barry Lyn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, talks to "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann about the allegations in "Tempting Faith."
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By Jonathan Larsen
"Countdown" producer
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Updated: 6 minutes ago
More than five years after President Bush created the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, the former second-in-command of that office is going public with an insider’s tell-all account that portrays an office used almost exclusively to win political points with both evangelical Christians and traditionally Democratic minorities.

The office’s primary mission, providing financial support to charities that serve the poor, never got the presidential support it needed to succeed, according to the book.

Entitled “Tempting Faith,” the book is not scheduled for release until Oct. 16, but MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” has obtained a copy.

“Tempting Faith’s” author is David Kuo, who served as special assistant to the president from 2001 to 2003. A self-described conservative Christian, Kuo’s previous experience includes work for prominent conservatives including former Education Secretary and federal drug czar Bill Bennett and former Attorney General John Ashcroft.